socket (Bluetooth) (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

This function creates a socket that is bound to a specific service provider.

Syntax

SOCKET socket(
  int af,
  int type,
  int protocol
);

af
[in] Address family specification. To create a Bluetooth socket, use AF_BTH.

type
[in] Type specification for the new socket. To create a Bluetooth socket, use SOCK_STREAM.

protocol
[in] Protocol to be used with the socket that is specific to the indicated address family. To create a Bluetooth socket, use BTHPROTO_RFCOMM.

Returns a handle to the new socket on success; otherwise returns INVALID_SOCKET. The specific error code can be retrieved by calling WSAGetLastError.

Note

This function is actually a Winsock function. However, the information that is presented in it is specific to Bluetooth.

For more information about the socket function, see socket (Windows Sockets) in the Winsock reference.

The following example code shows how to use socket to create a Bluetooth socket.

SOCKET s = socket (AF_BTH, SOCK_STREAM, BTHPROTO_RFCOMM);

Header	winsock2.h
Library	Ws2.lib